The Mystery of the Pink Flamingo

Javier Polo’s The Mystery of the Pink Flamingo – part documentary, part scripted fiction – is a joyous celebration of all things kitsch, and a cry for people to through off the strait-jacket of convention, and be themselves… whatever that might be. It opens with a dream about flamingos, a vibrant, visually gorgeous opening that sets you up for what will be a riot of colour and visual style throughout. Rigo Pex, the dreamer in question, is an uptight sound engineer who spends his days in regimented isolation and anally retentive routine, collecting sounds and doing the same things at the same time each day. But he’s haunted by a dream about the flamingo, and so – encouraged by a mysterious voice in his head that acts as narrator – he sets out to examine the odd allure and all-pervasive presence of the flamingo in pop culture.

David Flint, The Reprobate